Friday, May 2, 2008

Blackout At Midnight!

Bill Everett Tribute: Day Two rolls on with another horrific Atlas weirdie… appropriately titled too, because when you get to the last page and see the head on this monster you might just black-out from laughing so hard. Too cool.

(Also, make sure you head over to Pappy's today for TWO more great Everett tales! Click HERE!)From the July 1952 issue of Spellbound #5

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Yesterday we looked at a sexy negligee ad scanned from a 50’s comic; now let’s jump forward 20 years to 1973 with a fondly remembered t-shirt ad that was featured in nearly every comic book on the shelf at the time. I’ll say the superhero and hot rod images were much more appropriate in a comic ad than say, silky sheer sex panties, but the inclusion of Bud Man and Panama Red(takin’ a toke on the smoke bloke) might be pushin’ it. Does anyone know what ever become of Roach Studios in Ohio?

I need to make one of those t-shirts to wear for Stella--"YOU TURN ME ON!"

I really loved the first-person pov of the art in this--reminded me of the experiment in the Robert Montgomery film noir The Lady in the Lake, only I think it worked much better here. Loved the (typically misspelled) newspaper headlines, and even the wild eraser-topper look of the monster.

And is it just me, or do "I" look like a haggard Vincent Price in the mirror before "I" change into one of the Fry Gang?

Great story. The POV shots actually reminded me of any number of video games. This would have made a great horror version of Myst.

I'd have to dump Stella, though. Any lady, even one who lives in a castle, who tells me "...we'll completely remodel this depressing old place, and seal up the dungeon forever" is clearly on a very different page than I am.

Well,i'll admit the monster looks more like a rejected design for Cookie monster(first one to type in Om,nom,nom dies.)than a ferocious ghoul,but the artwork and dialogue more than make up for it,a true triumph of execution over the material.Stan always seemed to write his most prose-heavy(though this could be because Everett occasionally co-plotted things and did his own lettering) and intelligent scripts for his best artists,it's obvious he considered Everett one of those.

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